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Schools will punish students who do not display proper behavior, but they rarely model the right behavior, rendering the punishment useless. Social studies content allows for character exploration as a reasonable tangent, making it the social studies teacher's responsibility to incorporate it when possible.

12 Resources for all social studies teachers.

Interactive Maps (Infographics) for Social Studies, History, Economics

Educational Materials Please do not hesitate to request information material such as: - Study Guide "The Last Flight of Petr Ginz" (available in English, French and Spanish) - Women and the Holocaust educational DVD and study guide (available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese (subtitles)) - Discussion Papers Journal, Volume I (available in all UN official languages) - Discussion Papers Journal, Volume II (available in English) - Footprints for Hope educational video DVD (available in all UN official languages (subtitles)) - Posters (available in English, French, Spanish and Russian) - Commemorative DVD (highlighting the first universal observance of the International Day of Commemoration on memory of the victims of the holocaust

K-12 education's early steps in movement to an all digital curriculum. Students in 4th, 7th, and 9th grade social studies will be on an iPad.

Collection of TED talks for social studies teachers.

study resources!

more AP Human Geography Resources

more AP Human Geography Resources

From maps to documents, here are a few good social studies and history apps to check out on iTunes...

Great resource for discussion about a contemporary single party state- Also good for OPVL source discussion and drawing correlations between studies and current events

Summer reading for all grade levels

Great sites to enhance your lessons!

In his study of people who find satisfaction with their lives, Harvard psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi defines as autotelic those who are happiest when they are absorbed in complex activities. By focusing on tasks and outcomes that stretch their skills, these young people are more likely to grow into contented adults. The most significant factor for autotelic development is what Csikszentmihalyi terms attentional capacity.

The Discussion Papers Journal series is a compilation of papers written by leading Holocaust and genocide studies scholars from around the world. The series aims to engage the minds of students and spark lively discussions to expand their awareness of how hatred, discrimination and human rights abuses are shaping world events today. Teachers and students will examine what the implications are for the future and what could and should be done by the international community to stem the tide of violence, ensure the rule of law and protect the most vulnerable. The views expressed by these scholars do not necessarily reflect those of the United Nations.

Strategic studies have retained the thinking of Karl von Clausewitz at its core. The Prussian General's understanding of war by reference to the political process saw wars as the "continuation of politics by other means" (Clausewitz, 1997). In conflict research, this has become the most widely quoted definition of war. What made Clausewitz's work 'On War' so successful was that he wrote about war by focusing on its general aspects, or more simply, on the spirit of war as he saw it. In this way, war no longer drew on narrow and specific contexts, but rather became understood, as an enduring phenomenon, in general terms.

Zero Hour is a digital archive for teachers and students studying Australians in the First World War. It was presented today at the HTA Conference by Michael Molkentin and it is so good!!!! Check it out! It's got a teachers section (with a sample assessment task and marking criteria, plus other lesson ideas). I can't wait to use it in my classes!

This is a network designed for high school students to share ideas and help each other with their history studies. Please let us know that you're a teacher when you join and we'll grant you teacher privileges. You can then admit and monitor your students in the network. Any feedback you could provide on ways to improve it would also be great. Hope we see you there!

2,500 Primary Sources from the National Archives and ready to use tools, activities to teaching these documents in the classroom.

Very interesting site for social studies and primary sources.